As I write this, I’m listening to Stephen King on VoA, handling listener calls. He’s calling the Washington headquarters from Florida, but not, he stressed, via cell phone. An interesting assortment of callers from all across the world. Both the moderator and King are doing a good job of handling their eccentricities!
The Stoker recommendation process has come to an end. Though the final results have not been confirmed, but “Smell of Fear” received 8 recommendations, which is pretty decent, but not enough to make the preliminary ballot. Only the top ten entries in any category will go on the ballot, and there are a dozen stories with 9 or more recs. Ah, well. The Corpse Blossoms anthology itself will certainly be on the prelim ballot and I’ll wager it makes the final ballot as well.
My new column is up on Storytellers Unplugged. It discusses a little bit of the business end of being a writer, and is topical for the season.
